About J. Stone Cards

J. Stone Cards turned 30 in March 2015. It is
hard to do anything day after day without the work becoming overdone or weary. I
remember how impassioned I felt when I was still living in our old studio,
creating then painting each card, writing each verse on every card by hand.

How I welcomed the challenge of holding off
creditors, staying up alone night after night coming up with new images,
thinking up new words. Making a J. Stone Card was an act of devotion, my
spiritual path disguised as a way to earn a living!

Sixteen years later this is still my path but
sometimes the disguise fools even me. I continue to work hard, but others work
beside me. If starting J. Stone Cards was like falling in love, staying faithful
to the work, the real work, the inner work, requires a much deeper commitment.
Keeping love alive isn't easy! Posturing won't due, nor will feigning passion.
If I want J. Stone Cards to represent and honor the sacred in everyday life,
then every day I need to honor the sacred!

In 16 years, everything has changed and nothing
has changed. Now as then, J. Stone Cards addresses our struggle to be fully
human. Now, as then, this is my struggle too. If I want J. Stone Cards to
represent life and all its challenges, I can't pretend to be someone who has all
the answers; sometimes I don't even know the right questions!

But, I do know this: all of us who work here and
those of you who buy the work are joined in an uncommonly close way. One does
not function without the other, and it is our customers who keep this company
alive and thriving!

All of us at J. Stone Cards are very thankful we
have beaten the odds of most small greeting card publishers and we have never
taken our success for granted! I am personally as thankful for the dedicated
people who work beside me as I am for each of you, and of your dedication to the
work we produce. You are the ones who have kept us going.

I believe our product is as beautiful as ever,
but those first handmade cards were beautiful to me too, because they spoke the
truth from my heart. From the beginning I wanted to create greeting cards that
spoke in a real way that might remind someone reading it to keep their heart
open, that there is dignity in whatever struggle, whatever joy, whatever passion
they were experiencing, and to never give up, because everyday life is full of
wonder, and one moment or event no less sacred than another...